Joy Redmond, Trans Composer & Pianist

On this week's episode, the BQLP chats with Ms. Joy Redmond (she/her), a composer and musician based in New York City. Joy holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied composition with Matthias Pintscher. Currently, Joy’s musical pursuits include composing for concert, stage, and media works, collaborating with other artists as a producer and arranger, and performing on keyboards in a variety of genres. In January, Joy’s one-act opera “Hairpiece,” exploring the power of authentic gender expression, debuted as part of the American Opera Initiative at the Kennedy Center. https://www.kennedy-center.org/video/digital-stage/opera/2024/american-opera-initiative-hairpiece/